It is the nature of teaching and learning that when teachers and students are engaged in classrooms, artifacts and exchanges often occur that do not represent finished products. These are important elements of classroom life, since these moments are often the most teachable. When I decided to do some of our work in EDC 102 and 430 online, my first reflex was to limit access to our website so that we could make a more gentle entrance and so that I could think through how we might interact on the site. This approach to wikis has been called a walled garden approach, and is generally frowned upon as being against the spirit of wikis.
As the semester progresses, I would like us to decide if and when we make URITK public, so I invite the site's participants to use this page's discussion area to voice their opinions on the matter.
The photos above are both take from a blog entry arguing for student blogs to be public written by Clarence Fisher in his Remote Access blog.
It is the nature of teaching and learning that when teachers and students are engaged in classrooms, artifacts and exchanges often occur that do not represent finished products. These are important elements of classroom life, since these moments are often the most teachable. When I decided to do some of our work in EDC 102 and 430 online, my first reflex was to limit access to our website so that we could make a more gentle entrance and so that I could think through how we might interact on the site. This approach to wikis has been called a walled garden approach, and is generally frowned upon as being against the spirit of wikis.
As the semester progresses, I would like us to decide if and when we make URITK public, so I invite the site's participants to use this page's discussion area to voice their opinions on the matter.
The photos above are both take from a blog entry arguing for student blogs to be public written by Clarence Fisher in his Remote Access blog.
Photo credit: http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/Wall%20in%20Bethlehem-1.jpg